An approach to enable advanced
troubleshooting, granular analysis and
service quality of experience assessment is
presented. The use of topology information in
the identification of each cable network
element along with granular information of
the element configuration and health is
proposed. This technique covers multiple
layers including the service layer. At the
physical layers street addresses, taps and
amplifiers are used to identify impairment
location. All layers are leveraged to measure
network and service reliability, service
degradation and to quantify quality of
experience. A cable infrastructure
implementation is described as an example.